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Comment by drevil-v2

The Microsoft blog post on this incident has more details on how the attackers might have managed to get their malware digitally signed by Solarwinds

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/12/13/custome...

> An intruder using administrative permissions acquired through an on-premises compromise to gain access to an organization’s trusted SAML token- signing certificate. This enables them to forge SAML tokens that impersonate any of the organization’s existing users and accounts, including highly privileged accounts.

parent drevil-v2 5 years ago

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